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Aderet Eliyahu, R. Joseph Hayyim of Baghdad, Livorno 1864

אדרת אליהו - First Edition - Kabbalah

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  • Lot Number 46264
  • Title (English) Aderet Eliyahu
  • Title (Hebrew) אדרת אליהו
  • Note First Edition - Kabbalah
  • Author R. Joseph Hayyim ben Elijah of Baghdad (Ben Ish Hai)
  • City Livorno
  • Publisher Elijah Benamazough & Partners
  • Publication Date 1864
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500
  • Item # 1273822
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Physical Description

First edition. 174, [1] ff., 248:184 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, scattered worming throughout. A good copy bound in the contemporary half leather and marbled paper boards.
 

Detail Description

Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch by the author of the Ben Ish Hai. R. Joseph Hayyim b. Elijah Al-Hakam (1833 or 1835–1909), was born in Baghdad, he studied with his maternal uncle, R. David Hai b. Meir. In 1848 he began to study under R. Abdallah Somekh. He succeeded his father (1859) as preacher, a post he held until his death. In 1869 he visited Erez Israel. In 1876 Jacob Obermeier of Vienna, who had come to Baghdad to teach French, insulted R. Joseph Hayyim. The community excommunicated him and compelled him to request the rabbi's pardon. Al-Hakam was renowned as a great halakhic authority who instituted many takkanot. He wrote some 60 works on all aspects of Torah, only a few of which have been published. He is best known for his Ben Ish Hai. His other published works include Ben Yehoyada (1898–1904), five volumes of commentaries to the aggadic portions of the Babylonian Talmud and Rav Pe'alim (1901–12), responsa. He wrote approximately 200 piyyutim and pizmonim, about 50 of which are incorporated in the liturgy of Baghdad Jewry; the rest are still in manuscript.

 

Hebrew Description

... מחברת הדרושים ... על חמשה חומשים ... ממני ... יוסף חיים בן ... ר' אליהו בן ... הרב ... משה חיים ... בשנת ו'ה'ע'ש'ר' ו'ה'כ'ב'ו'ד

 

References

CD-NLI 0135590; EJ